Dan Jacobson - Works

Novelist and short-story writer, born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He studied at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, then spent some time on a kibbutz in Israel before settling in Britain in 1958. He began writing in the 1950s, with The Trap (1955), later novels including The Beginners (1966), The Wonder-Worker (1973), Her Story (1987), The God-Fearer (1993), and All For Love (2005). A volume of autobiography, Time and Time Again, appeared in 1985.

Dan Jacobson (born March 7, 1929 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist. His early novels, including The Trap, his first published novel, focus on South African themes.

Works

The Trap (1955) A Dance in the Sun (1956) The Price of Diamonds (1958) The Zulu and the Zeide (1959) The Evidence of Love (1960) No Further West (1961) Time of Arrival (1963) (essays) Beggar My Neighbor (1964) (short stories) The Beginners (1966) Through the Wilderness and Other Stories (1968) The Rape of Tamar (1970) Inklings (1973) (short stories) The Wonder-Worker (1973) The Confessions of Josef Baisz (1979) The Story of the Stories: The Chosen People and Its God (1982) (non-fiction) Time and Time Again: Autobiographies (1985) Her Story (1987) Adult Pleasures: Essays on Writers and Readers (1989) Hidden in the Heart (1991) The God-Fearer (1992) The Electronic Elephant (1994) Heshel's Kingdom (1998) All For Love (2005)